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Extensive Cornell University field studies have shown that up to 66% of corn crops grown without neonic-treated seeds suffered economically damaging losses.These losses were particularly high in fields utilizing cover crops because New York corn’s primary pest, the seedcorn maggot, is attracted to high levels of organic matter.
If New York bans them, the state’s farmers will have higher input and labor costs, even as they watch their incomes literally being consumed by insects in the field. With a yearly war chest exceeding $200 million and a huge staff of political activists and lawyers, the NRDC wields considerable political clout and has ties to the financial networks of hedge-fund managers, corporate executives and other 1-percenters who raise big money for political campaigns.
The NRDC still propagandizes against genetically modified crops, for example, despite the overwhelming scientific consensus they’re safe, increase yields and lessen runoff and COAnd for years, the NRDC has campaigned against neonics on the grounds that they’re driving honeybees extinct, even as bee populations were steadily rising.The Obama administration created a special White House commission to investigate bee health in 2013.
Jim Jones, then-EPA’s assistant administrator for chemical safety and pollution prevention, noted neonic seed treatments appear in mature crops at such minute levels that it’s almost as if the neonics are not there. Activists misled legislators with a single Cornell report from 2020 with serious credibility problems that implausibly concluded neonics are unnecessary.
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